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Tom Hollingsworth is a former deputy sports editor of the Daily Express. For many years he worked in a sports agency, representing mainly football players and motor racing drivers. Tom holds a private pilot’s licence and flying is his principal recreation. More Posts

Cheltenham

I have been to Cheltenham a couple of times and not enjoyed it. As with many English racing sporting institutions, it’s incredibly hard to reach and leave comfortably. I recall being stuck in a scrum for buses for over an hour. Also I do not identify with, let alone participate in, the [...]

March 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

From playing to punditry

The fall-out from the abrupt removal of Kevin Pietersen from the elite England cricket squads – a decision I support, incidentally – continues to ripple across the media pages and airwaves. See here for the latest, as described in an article that appears today on the website of the DAILY [...]

March 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Time waits for no man

The word of Formula One doesn’t really do it for me. No disrespect to the drivers who risk life and limb, or to the engineers constantly pushing the boundaries of motor technology,  but – as the Grand Prix circus caravan progresses around its twenty or so venues every year – the [...]

January 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Call me a cynic, but …

Last night, driving home in torrential rain from Oxfordshire where I had been for a ‘catch-up’ meal with my daughter, I listened to a sports programme on Radio Five Live. One of its items was a report upon an anti-drugs disciplinary hearing on 31 year old Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell, the [...]

January 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sadly, it comes with the territory

The world learned yesterday that Arsenal’s Theo Walcott will miss both the remainder of the season and this summer’s World Cup after suffering a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (‘ACL’) in his left knee during the 2-0 FA Cup victory over Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday 4th January. [...]

January 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sledging: cricket v football

Watching the excellent game between Fulham and Manchester City, I was struck by one incident. The Fulham equaliser was bizarre, when Vincent Kompany somehow deflected his clearance backwards over Joe Hart.  If the object of sledging is to remove your opponent out of his zone of concentration then [...]

December 23, 2013 // 0 Comments

Farewell but not goodbye

Since yesterday the media has be awash with tributes to David Coleman, one of the all-time great sporting commentators, who has died at the age of 87. Greater authorities than your author today have produced acres of newsprint and many memorable personal reflections upon Coleman’s outstanding [...]

December 22, 2013 // 0 Comments

How to rack up the pressure on the drug cheats

Let me begin by declaring an interest. I am a rabid hard-liner on the use of performing-enhancement drugs in sport, any sport. In my view, anyone who is found to have transgressed the rules in place that are designed to catch drug cheats should – as a matter of principle – be banned from taking [...]

December 19, 2013 // 0 Comments

The sport of business

Apart from recent excursions to see the brilliant Senna documentary and the Ron Howard-directed movie Rush – about the 1976 season rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt – my interest in Formula One over the past fifty years has been fitful at best. These days, whilst happy to acknowledge [...]

December 15, 2013 // 0 Comments

Test Match Special

For those who find 8 hours of continuous sleep elusive Test Match Special (TMS) is a boon with the Ashes continuing all through the night. Neither its format nor type of characters have changed much over the years. Brian Johnston ” Johnners “,  full of public school japery, is now [...]

December 14, 2013 // 0 Comments

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